Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:45:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:44:57 -0500 Received: from zero.tech9.net ([209.61.188.187]:7187 "EHLO zero.tech9.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:44:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4 From: Robert Love To: Ken Brownfield Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020201133833.B8599@asooo.flowerfire.com> In-Reply-To: <20020201031744.A32127@asooo.flowerfire.com> <1012582401.813.1.camel@phantasy> <20020201133833.B8599@asooo.flowerfire.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 01 Feb 2002 14:50:31 -0500 Message-Id: <1012593032.1095.7.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 14:38, Ken Brownfield wrote: > Of course, in my case deleting the /dev/random character node still > doesn't allow entropy to drain in (after at least a month) so I suspect > the kernel's entropy generation would be sufficient if it didn't > artificially stall or drain from within the kernel. Agreed, I suspect you do indeed have a problem. What is the output of `/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail' when programs are stalled? Is it actually 0? Can you see if any programs are perhaps draining entropy in the background? See what has /dev/[u]random open ... note even /dev/urandom uses entropy, its the same as /dev/random, except it doesn't care when the entropy estimate is 0. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/